Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Mckenzie
/muh · KEN · zee/
Meaning
“Son of Coinneach (fair one)”
Scottish surname from the Gaelic Mac Coinnich meaning son of Coinneach (fair one); the first-name use is largely an American and Australian trend.
Nicknames
kenzie
Vibe
strongelegant
How it ages.
Firmly 1990s-2000s American; feels very tied to that era's surname-as-given-name trend.
The cultural moment.
Peaked in the US in the late 1990s through 2000s; now fading.